Category: AspNet

Azure Storage is a quick and effortless way to store data for applications that has high availability, is secure, scales and is redundant. This blog post walks through a simple application that creates a short code for a long URL to easily reference it. It uses Table Storage to map codes to URLs and a… Read more

We all want our web applications to load as fast as possible to give the best possible experience to the users. One of the steps to achieve that is to make sure the images we use are as optimized as possible. If we can reduce the file size of the images then we can significantly… Read more

We know virtual machines (VMs) are one of the most popular places to run apps in Azure, but publishing to a VM from Visual Studio has been a tricky experience for some. So, we’re pleased to announce that in Visual Studio 15.5 we’ve added some improvements to the experience. In this post, we’ll discussed the… Read more

We have recently added a few interesting features for ASP.NET publishing. The updates include: Container Registry Publish Updates Create publish profile without publishing In this post, we will briefly describe these updates. We will get started with the container related news. Container Registry Publish Updates Container development (e.g. Docker) has grown in popularity recently, including… Read more

One of the most common requirements for web applications is for users create accounts for the purpose of access control and personalization. While ASP.NET templates have always made it easy to create an application that uses a database you control to register and track user accounts, that introduces other complications over the long term. As… Read more

The ASP.NET team is pleased to share the first preview version of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework. In this post, we’ll look at the new features and changes to the web framework that were announced at the Build 2017 keynote and sessions. We will also look at some other updates that were published for ASP.NET… Read more

In the second episode of the MVP Show, intrepid host Seth Juarez traveled to Heidelberg, Germany to meet with Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP Dominick Baier. Dominick is one of the developers responsible for the Identity Server open source project. Seth and Dominick shared several videos about all things API, Germany, and Security. Check… Read more

Today we are happy to announce the release of SignalR 2.2.2-preview1. SignalR 2.2.2 is a servicing release, including some highly requested updates and bug fixes. Here are the highlights of the release: Support for Service Bus 3 (https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/3548) NetStandard version of the client (https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/3851) A bunch of work making Redis Scaleout more reliable Here is… Read more

Are you using the legacy ASP.NET membership providers with your application? When you look in web.config, is there a membership configuration within the system.web element? The membership provider has been available since ASP.NET 2, and has been superseded by the Identity provider for a more secure authentication and authorization facility in your application. Best practices… Read more

We are pleased to announce updates to our ASP.NET tools, ASP.NET Core tools, Container tools, and frameworks that are shipping as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release today. We have made significant updates to the web development tools to make them easier for you to use and help make you more productive in your… Read more